บท 65: The Queen of Queens

Long Xia dialled a number as she released a breath. 

Yuan Bojing answered the call. 

"I'm outside of the Tower. In the parking lot," she said. 

"Why are you there?" he questioned. 

"…You know why," she replied. 

He sighed deeply. "It would have been nice to know ahead?" he replied, voice clipped. "You shouldn't have gone by yourself." 

"You said you would help me track the Empress, and you haven't done anything about it. So I've been looking for her myself. I see her now. Come quickly if you were serious," she countered. 

Yuan Bojing was silent for a moment. "I will be there as soon as I can." 

Long Xia hadn't seen him since their intimate nights. But it didn't matter anymore. The two of them had been in each other's social spheres their entire lives, and that would never change.

She would learn to live with it as she always had, and she'd pretend it was nothing, that what happened between them meant nothing.